Kepler Searches for Planets in Habitable Zones

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Jul 11, 2011

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NASA's Kepler mission's principal investigator, Bill Borucki, talks about the search for exoplanets that might be in habitable zones around their stars. John Matson reports

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Jul 11, 2011

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